Commission Seeks Answers on Benghazi

The Obama administration has been supporting jihadists and the Muslim Brotherhood abroad, thereby furthering the goals of Islamists in the Middle East, argued several speakers at Accuracy in Media’s Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) conference last week. Why is this important to the exploration of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012? First of all, it provides context for the terrible conditions that Ambassador Stevens faced when he traveled there that September, and the make-up of those who attacked our facilities there. It could also partially explain the administration’s eagerness to falsely blame the attack on a YouTube video that Muslims found offensive, rather than acknowledge poor security conditions and a growing al-Qaeda movement in the region. After all, the President believes that core al Qaeda is on the run.

“Here’s the sentence, here’s the headline, that the Obama administration does not want broadcast anywhere or printed anywhere: ‘Obama Administration Arms Al Qaeda,’” Chris Farrell, Director of Research and Investigation at Judicial Watch, said at the conference. “That’s it, right there.”

Judicial Watch is the only organization litigating in Federal Court on Benghazi to date. It recently issued a new report, the second of two, on the Benghazi attacks and the Administration’s subsequent stonewalling.

“Look, this attack in Benghazi did not happen in a vacuum. It wasn’t a fluke. It didn’t just occur,” argued author and investigative journalist Ken Timmerman. “It was a policy shift that took place as soon as Obama took power to overturn our longstanding national security alliances in the Middle East and to support the Muslim Brotherhood.”

“I think the path, I think the green light, if you will, even, was given by President Obama in his 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt, when he green-lighted the Islamic uprising that would follow over the next two years,” said Clare Lopez, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. Lopez is a former CIA operations officer and a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi. “What happened in Libya was a follow-on to that green light, as well as what happened in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood rose up and seized power for a time.”

During the aforementioned Cairo speech, noted Timmerman, “sitting behind the President of the United States as he’s giving the speech, so they’re pictured in all of the news footage of it, are top members of the Muslim Brotherhood—at that point still an outlawed group although tolerated by the Mubarak regime.” Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt at that time, was not invited. This sends a clear message from our President.

As for Muammar Qaddafi, he was a brutal dictator, but “He had al-Qaeda jihadis in his jails,” said Lopez. “And yet, in March of 2011, the United States, together with NATO allies Italy, France, and others, decided to intervene in Libya. Why? To assist al Qaeda militias to overthrow a sovereign government that was no threat to the United States.” Those skeptical of the al Qaeda connections to Libya Shield, Ansar al Sharia, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), and other Libyan “liberation” freedom fighters should read John Rosenthal’s The Jihadist Plot, which details al Qaeda’s intricate plan to overthrow the apostate Qaddafi.

“As we know, we’ve had step-by-step accounts of the killing of Osama bin Laden, and some information that was probably classified,” noted Kevin Shipp, a former CIA officer and author of From the Company of Shadows, at the conference. “We’ve had step-by-step accounts of what’s going on in Syria, with the exceptions of some things about the gas. We’ve been given nothing about Benghazi. No, not even the smallest detail regarding what happened that evening.”

The reason we’ve been given step-by-step accounts of Osama bin Laden’s death is partially because it helped the President politically. Similarly, knowledge of Syria’s conflict assisted the President in making the case to send military and non-military aid. But Benghazi, where four people died? President Obama would rather that issue be swept under the rug.

Members of the Commission expressed their dismay that the administration did not mount a more vigorous attempt to rescue the Benghazi four, and that, they argue, stand down orders were given.

“If the President’s child were in Benghazi, would the rescue attempt have been more aggressive?” asked Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, at the conference. Tyrone Woods was one of two former Navy SEALs who, along with Ambassador Chris Stevens and information officer Sean Smith, was killed that day in Benghazi. Charles Woods asked the same question at a hearing before Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) committee three days later. At the hearing, Rep. Issa announced that he had subpoenaed two Diplomatic Security agents who were on the ground in Benghazi that night. He said that the State Department had suggested to him that these two might not want to come forward because there was an FBI investigation ongoing.

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), who also spoke at the conference, noted that those involved were consistently politicizing the FBI investigation by using it as an excuse to not provide information.

“I appreciate the fact that this Citizens’ Committee is here, but I wish that it wasn’t necessary,” said Woods. “I wish that it was not necessary, because the truth voluntarily should have been presented by our administration.”

The Commission is dedicated to finding out the truth behind the Benghazi attacks, and this work is ongoing. Captain Larry Bailey (Ret.) invited confidential sources to contact him and be assured of total privacy and anonymity. Videos and transcripts from the September 16th conference are being posted at the CCB website.

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Yes and after you get Amswers PUT Clinton in Prison Where she Belongs
But they will dig and probe and as always nothing no one in Washington can tell the Truth

terryk

Given that at least four members of the “Citizens Commission on Benghazi” are birthers and most of the rest are anti-Muslim, anti-Obama or both, how can we trust that this kangaroo court really wants “the truth” about Benghazi?

Mr. W. H. Braden

Why is the President of the United States an adversary to the truth? As Mr. Woods said, “…I wish it (Citizen’s Committee) wasn’t necessary…”. This president has sworn an oath to uphold the law. I wish we could catch him at stealing a candy bar.

Mr. W. H. Braden

How can we trust you “Con Web Watch”? How can we trust a man that hides his admission records to Occidental? How do we trust a president that holds Americans in contempt and lies to them?

terryk

If I’m wrong, you should be able to prove it, correct?

Jlonde

“The Obama administration has been supporting jihadists and the Muslim Brotherhood abroad, thereby furthering the goals of Islamists in the Middle East”, No! really? These people live in cloud cuckoo land! May be time now to set up a “Citizens Commission on Iraq” to investigate the lies of the Bush administration on WMD to start a war which led to the deaths of thousands of U.S. and U.K. soldiers, not to mention, of course, Iraqis

Kathy

The investigation of Benghazi needs to be outside DC!! We will not get the answers needed from all the “good ole’ boys”!!

Kathy

When will the libs start facing reality? There is stonewalling going on and lying by everyone that is involved!! There is no integrity in the democratic party!! My father was a dem and I know he would be rolling in his grave with what this party has turned into!!

Kathy

How so? There is NO integrity in the democratic party!! At least with Watergate and a few other republican scandals, they admitted where they went wrong!! The dems are in so deep that I don’t believe they know what the truth is anymore!!!

Jlonde

Reposted as comment was deleted: “The Obama administration has been supporting jihadists and the Muslim Brotherhood abroad, thereby furthering the goals of Islamists in the Middle East”: These people really live in cloud cuckoo land! May be time to set up a “Citizens Commission on Iraq” to investigate the lies of the Bush administration on WMD to start a war which led to the deaths of thousands of U.S. and U.K. soldiers, not to mention, of course Iraqis

Jlonde

What about putting G.W. Bush, D. Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in prison, where they belong, for lying and starting an unnecessary war in Iraq instead of ending the one in Afghanistan?

Mr. W. H. Braden

Prove what, that he hides his past? Prove that he lies to us? Just seeing your title “Con Web Watch” tells me you are bias against the truth and why hide your name?

POPEYE

Lets compare the stats regarding the U.S. Embassies and deaths attacked during the Bush Adm.

popeye

Izza is a used car salesman and no I would not buy a used car from this man